expound

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"Your friend, Mister Carmichael Yes, yes"--he now looked up, and spoke eagerly--"John Carmichael, of Drumtochty my friend in my old age and others my boys but John has left me he would not speak to me I am alone now he did not understand mine acquaintance into darkness here we see in a glass darkly he turned aside to expound the Greek word for darkly), "but some day face to face."

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  1. transitive verb To give a detailed statement of; set forth: expounded the intricacies of the new tax law.
  2. transitive verb To explain in detail; elucidate: The speaker expounded the approach of positive thinking. See Synonyms at explain.
  3. intransitive verb To make a detailed statement: The professor was expounding on a favorite topic.

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  • I'll let others expound, but basically iMac has expandability limitations that may inhibit your workflow (depends on what kind of editing you do for a living.) —  Discussions: Message List - root
  • Congressmen and TV pundits will posture, expound, skewer oil executives on TV, and get red in the face, but they have failed the American public again. —  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
  • And don't make me expound: I don't like the idea of suspension. —  Latest Articles
  • I got so much more out of the book than I would have ever gotten over hearing Wolf Blitzer rant (what kind of name is Wolf?), or Bill O'Reilly expound, or Olbermann act snide, that I have a new motto. —  MND: Your Daily Dose of Counter-Theory
  • Mr Wilton said Mr Tunnell had an astonishing range of subjects on which he was eager to expound, and was never happier than when surrounded by friends swapping the latest news and gossip.
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  1. Middle English expounden, from Anglo-Norman espoundre, from Latin expōnere : ex-, ex- + pōnere, to place; see apo- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English expounden, expounen, expownen (with ex- for es-), from Old French espondre = Provencal esponer, exponer, expondre = Spanish exponer = Portuguese expór = Italian esporre, from Latin exponere, set out, put out, expose, set forth, explain, from ex, out, + ponere, put, set, place: see expone, a doublet of expound, and cf. compound.
 

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/ɛksˈpaʊnd/
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